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Togliatti and his Communist friend, Writer-Philosopher Ignazio Silone, spent days discussing what they should do. Silone refused, left the party, now leads, with Giuseppe Saragat, a decent, ineffectual anti-Communist group of dissident Socialists. But Togliatti bowed to Moscow and turned in the names. There is blood on that blue serge, doublebreasted suit...
...Umberto ("The Brain") Terracini is Togliatti's lean, charming second-in-command. He is the very model of double-breasted fastidiousness; when he succeeded Saragat as Assembly president and prepared to take over his official residence, a conversation took place which would have shocked less cultured Communists...
...Saragat: "My wife and daughter did all the housework." Terracini (indignant): "But you see, there are five of us-myself, my wife and our three Siamese cats...
...Italians, Ford was no anachronism. Said Bricklayer Luigi Breschi: "If all owners had poured back the profits in their company like Ford, there would be no need for nationalization." Socialist Leader Giuseppe Saragat warned, through his paper: "Ford loved birds, and built for them an immense natural park-foreign birds wanted none of his artificial freedoms, and flew...
...Socialist Pietro Nenni, after a year of playing footie with the Communists, now knew that Togliatti could give him a splintering kick in the shins at will. If Nenni and his Socialists were ever to walk again, they might have to make peace with the disaffected Socialists of Giuseppe Saragat in a last, desperate effort to save the Italian moderate left from total annihilation...